160 thoughts on “Texas’s worst speed traps”

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I love your site. Just went through Lott and it has not changed. Got a huge ticket in 1988 there. Now rockdale Texas is even worse. Check it out. Horrible there I live 15 miles from it. Have a great day.

this just happen to me but I have to ask the officers we have all over the US getting killed why would any of these guys do this to add to the aggravation of the situation. I Love the blue we need them we do not need this. Just sayin’

Money. Police chief in our city bragged that one officer can bring in salary for 5 officers issuing citations. Policing is a dirty, shameful abuse when mixed with city politics. Small cities like Itasca need to be disincorporated.

If you get a ticket in these places, set up a jury trial so the towns people have to report for traffic court. After a while, these towns folks get tired of going to court and get rid of the politicians who allow these speed traps to exist.

No one likes jury duty for traffic court and half the time these guys don’t enforce serious law violations occurring in their towns. They stalk motorist traveling through the town and inflat speeds so you can’t take defensive driving.

Your full of bs. If a individual is traveling 90mph, wrecks out and kills/injures you or a someone you know then you may feel different. Speed limits are put into place for a reason. They are a serious offence which lead to thousands of preventable deaths. Moron’s
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The trooper who does nothing but sit at the corner store, giving out speeding citations, as he clocks folks coming off the ramp from the hwy, has a piece of cake job. Evedently nothing else prosperous to do with his paid time. The speed limit signs are not spaced out logically for motorists. And as you enter into town, its gets even worse. Its a bit odd that a state flourishing with oil resources, has to rely on BS speed trap revenue from its citizens and those travaling. No laws against unjust laws. The story the officer gave me, was about a young boy who got hit by car while he was waliking cross the hwy. Its not every motorist fault of the incident. You can get killed by a vehicle moving at 35 mph. That little ole town is putting money in some ones pocket. Yep! Its called hwy robbery.

There’s a small town here called Tool and it’s near Gunbarrel City and I’ve been driving since I was 12 years of age and never received a speeding ticket until I moved out by Gunbarrel City and as I was bringing my stuff to Trinidad where I’m moving to I was unaware of the speed limit and I use my cruise control all the time but when i was telling someone about my speed ticket the first word that acme out of his mouth is the name of the city which is Tool Texas as everyone knows just how easy it is to get a speeding ticket there on HWY 274. As it seems to me after a while now driving on HYY 274 it seems more dangerous to me as most of the drivers are driving much slower than what’s posted which I’ve seen lots of cars coming to a quick slow down. If the posted speed is 55 than the driver will be doing 40-45 or in some cases even slower. There’s hardly a passing zone and I’ve noticed that Tool is not listed on the most speed traps location in Texas. In some area there’s a long space between the posted speed signs

Itasca is a dying city and can easily be disincorporated according to state laws and turned into a utility and save the 600 home owners from these nasty thugs. A class action suit claim is also helpful to get our fine money back. We need the city Redidents.

Speed of 100mph is safe for the segment between Hillsboro and 10 mikes North of Grandview. This is from a practicing professional directly in charge of TxDOT interface and 85th percentile tolerance technology. Police has nothing to do with it and must stay away from practicing engineering. Disincorporate Itasca and free the city. It has been dead for a century.

The ticket traps are usually the city manage’s or administrator’s idea to pay their higher salaries. Itasca is not a real home rule city and can be easily did incorporated. Also the speed limits are not properly set according to the correct state procedure.

Itasca’s judge and prosecutor , neither are educated professionals are challenging Jury system by demanding money ahead of court process and Harassing their victims. Disincorporate dying city Itasca. Has less population than 100 years ago.

I want to inject a thought into your minds. “Politicians allow speed trap” is totally wrong in my case. That infers that the Police want to write tickets. I fought with the politicians and City Council almost 5 days a week for 4 years because they ordered me to have officers write more tickets and wanted to give me a quoto also. They even wanted my officers working graveyard to quit checking buildings and write tickets all night. They kinda set up their own little Kingdom and they are exempt they think, I also want to say no honest policeman will tell you “I would not give you this ticket, but they are making me do it”. I forbid my officers to write a ticket less than 10 miles over the limit and not to hide. DPS was writing them 5 over and sometimes 4 over. Let me tell you a joke. A man was speeding at midnight and just slowed down for a stop sign. He was stopped and he said but officer I slowed down for the stop sign. The officer pulled him out of the car and started beating him all over the head with his flashlight and said “Do you want me to slow down or stop”. In a wreck death is forever. Departments that leave “POLICE” off of their cars and put the lights in the grill are just out for the money. I marked all my cars and put overheads on them. After all someone may be looking for you to help them.

The whole system is crooked–cops, politicians & judges. BTW, there are many places that you (the ordinary citizen) can’t know what the speed limit really is?? Take for example the OSR road between Brazos and Booger county–only 1 inconspicious speed limit sign at each end of the road–nothing else. The area is prime territory for 2 sherriff’s departments, the DPS, and many constable orgs. And then there is all the snooping and spying going on! We are now staying home more and more–can’t go to dine out or visit–to dangerous on the roads.

On 07-26-2014 at 09:27pm, while driving on I-35 West going towards Ft Worth, Tx., passing by Itasca, Tx, Driving the posted speed limit 75, I was stopped by officer Porter for speeding. She said that I was speeding, 84 mph. I did explain that there was no way for me to have been going that speed do to my cruise control was at 75mph. Plus I have been on the same speed and on cruise control and passed a radar in Hillsboro, Tx., and did NOT get pulled over. She still gave me a ticket. That is just wrong and something should be done on this kind of situation. I was NOT speeding.!!!! What can I do in this type of situation??

Corrigan Texas
These are the lowest scum on the Planet. In the old days they wore bandanna ‘ s over their face so nobody knew who they were while robbing the stage coach. Now they pin a badge on these scum sucking bottom feeders and strap on a gun and call it legal.
“Yes Sir, just sign right here (or go to jail) and by the way sir this is not an admission of guilt but we have conveniently put the amount you have to pay right on the ticket”.
Meanwhile real crime is everywhere around us being overlooked because there isn’t any money in putting criminals in jail, it’s a NET LOSS.

Just got ticketed on I-35W by an Itasca policeman who claimed I was doing 7 miles over the posted limit and he had the laser to prove it. He wrote on the ticket he lasered me from 980 yards away. He was hiding behind some concrete pilings under the over pass between the north and south lanes. There were 5 vehicles kinda packed together going about the same speed-four of us on the right lane and one in the passing lane; yet he picked me out of the pack for the ticket. I was the only dark vehicle. Does anyone know how these laser things work? Is there an image on their screen? How did he happen to pick me out of a group of 5 vehicles ? Does it do any good to appear and appeal this case to the county courts?

Yep, they have found a gold mine on I-35W, although the map on Wikpedia shows the city limits do not include I35W. I lived there until 1961 and of course highway 81 was the main route between Waco and Ft. Worth and there was 1 red light and it started blinking yellow at night. We had 2 constables, 1 drove his own 1951 Plymouth and the other looked like the stereotypical potbellied sheriff and his patrol vehicle was a city owned dump truck. This could have been a scene right out Hollywood. He had a flashing red light to put on the dash and away he went, chasing some “speeder” who was probably half way to Ft. Worth before this guy got into 2nd gear. Sometimes we would follow him for a few miles just to see how far he would chase the guy, hey we didn’t have much entertainment in Itasca at the time.

Back in 2005, some of my techs had warned me about Mustang Ridge, but not Martindale. I was heading back towards I-10 to go home and I always use cruise when possible. Saw Martindale coming up, so I tapped the brake and was doing 55 when I hit the city limits sign and a black Dodge p/u blew by me, BUT he turned into a Martindale neighborhood, so he was a local. A brand new tricked out Crown Vic whipped around behind me and hit his lights. I pulled over and he got on his loudspeaker and said pull over at the next intersection. I did so and the grass was completely worn away from all of the traffic stops made there. While this peckerwood 20 year old was writing me a ticket, 3 more NEW loaded Crown Vics came by. Now this is a town (questionable) with about 750+ people. I now know they bought their new police fleet on the backs of the motoring public. I go out of my way to avoid going anywhere near Martindale

I would be interested in Pflugerville’s current stats. These guys are constantly working traffic. The courts are full while their burglary rate is high. Thieves managed to walk off with considerable loot while the waterpark was underconstruction. Their priorities are messed up.

You may want to recheck your data. Chillicothe (#17) city council data shows 68 citations were wrote in Feb 2015 out of 107 stops (for the month). so I question how one officer can write 14,500 tickets a year. That means our finest would have to write 6 tickets every hour he worked.

There is a speed trap in the town of Gunter, not just along 289, but along the 121 Farm Road. Tickets are $160 to $280+, and there are few speed limit signs. The speed limit is 55 mph along FM121, but it isn’t posted often, and the Gunter city limits extend well into the countryside where the boundary isn’t obvious.

The fuzz are out in Booger County–speed traps noted today on Hwy 79 in town of Franklin–and–on OSR road (running generally E-W) near interesection of Hwy 46. Note that speed limit on OSR is 60 MPH–and is inadequately marked. Be careful.

I recommend ya’ll steer clear of Hazzard County. Small town with only three police officer’s but they’ll pull you over if you’re speeding or not. Especially one by the name of Roscoe P. Coltrane. Although I also have been pulled over by an officer named Cletus before but have always been able to get away with just a warning.

Cops in Texas are so crooked there nose can’t stop snitching Texas cops are all gransters no better than al conpone.American cops are no better there ass should not be allowed to have a family because they need to remember ruby ridge and the murder of innocence children and women these bastards killed

Itasca is a general law city according to the State’s record and can easily be disincorporated. Meaning, it will loose ability to issue speeding tickets. Also the speed limits posted are all illegal since the legal process most likely has not been followed for this determination. Would you like to volunteer your time to do this? I’ ll Show you.

08/08/19 Great birthday gift I got speed trap in Riesel Tx the speed is
at 75-55-45 withing seconds they are such a rip off small town of 1,013 population thats how they make they’re money I hate that they can get away with this im going to go back through their on purpose and drive 45 on 75 in purpose just to piss the office off because I wont be speeding what can he do now I swear